Community Garden Charitable Fund

Since 2006, The Garden Fund, a 501(c)(3) all-volunteer organization, has focused on Pinecrest Gardens, a historical, cultural, botanical, and educational center located in the heart of Pinecrest, Florida. Amidst fourteen acres, with over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical foliage, it stands in a hardwood setting highlighted by winding pathways, moving streams, caves, fissures, and solution holes that support fish, turtles, crabs, and other wildlife. It is a lush paradise that is marveled at by thousands yearly. The Garden Fund targets areas of the Gardens in need of botanical enhancement, raises monies, and with guidance from Gardens' staff, transforms and beautifies these areas, one by one. 

To date, the Garden Fund has contributed more than $200,000 in botanical enhancement projects throughout Pinecrest Gardens. The most recent include cleanup of the Terrace Garden, renovation of the Dry Garden at a cost of over $18,000, Cleanup of the Caribbean Garden and the addition of a Lignum Vitae tree, planting of the Karen Mashburn Memorial Begonia Garden, a mosaic bench near the gardens' entrance, and a $16,000 replanting of the Caribbean Garden. Future projects include a renovation of a much-frequented section near the lower garden.